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that it affects property in the Parish to the extent of £759 rateable value, but does not
otherwise very materially affect the Parish.
Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Committee: —
1. That, subject to the Company agreeing to the insertion of the following clauses in
the Bill for the protection of the Vestry and entering into an undertaking for that purpose
no further action be taken in the matter.
2. That the Chief Engineer of the London County Council be informed of the action
proposed to be taken in the matter.
Proposed clauses.
(a) The Company shall not, under the powers of this Act or under the powers of
any former Act extended by this Act, purchase or acquire in the Parish of Rotherhithe
any two or more houses which on the 15th day of December next before the passing of
this Act or of the respective former Act by which such purchase or acquisition was originally
authorised, as the case may be, were or have been since that day, or shall hereafter
be occupied either wholly or partially by persons belonging to the labouring
class, or by other persons as tenants or lodgers unless and until the Company shall
have obtained the approval of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to a
scheme for providing new dwellings for such number of persons as were residing in
such houses on the respective 15th day of December aforesaid, and shall have given
security to the satisfaction of the said Secretary of State for the carrying out of the
scheme.
(b) The Company, when submitting to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
any scheme or schemes under this Act for providing accommodation for the
labouring classes or other persons displaced in the Parish of Rotherhithe shall, at the
same time forward to the Yestry a copy of such scheme.
(c) The Company shall not commence any of the works authorised by this Act over,
through, affecting or disturbing any of the public streets or places in the said Parish until
they shall have given 21 clear days' notice in writing of their intention to commence the
same, specifying the nature of the work to be done and the street intended to be broken
up and disturbed to the Surveyor of the Vestry and left for him at his office plans,
elevations, sections, and other necessary particulars for the construction of such works.